Paul Prescod wrote:
>
> "Barry A. Warsaw" wrote:
> >
> >...
> >
> > Does anybody ever even use something other than `s' for %() strings?
> >
> > >>> '%(float)f' % {'float': 3.9}
> > '3.900000'
>
> Presumably numerical analysts do....and David Ascher once told me he
> uses %d as a sanity type-check. I don't bother.
Paul's starting to turn into my brother -- quoting things I said twenty
years ago and that I have no way of disproving. As Bill said, "I don't
recall".
These days, I rarely think in FP, even if I use FP, so I typically use
%s. Back then I probably cared about mantissa and her friends.
--da
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